Carter Glass

Carter Glass (4 January 1858-28 May 1946) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-VA 6) from 4 November 1902 to 16 December 1918 (succeeding Peter J. Otey and preceding James P. Woods), US Secretary of the Treasury from 16 December 1918 to 1 February 1920 (succeeding William McAdoo and preceding David F. Houston), and a US Senator from 2 February 1920 to 28 May 1946 (succeeding Thomas S. Martin and preceding Thomas G. Burch).

Biography
Carter Glass was born in Lynchburg, Virginia in 1858, and he worked as a newspaper editor and publisher before being elected to the State Senate in 1899. He was a delegate to the state's 1902 constitutional convention, advocating for both progressive and segregationist policies. Glass served in the US House of Representatives from 1902 to 1918, when he was appointed Secretary of the Treasury under President Woodrow Wilson, and he then served in the US Senate from 1920 until his death in 1946. He sponsored the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, which created the FDIC and enforced the separation of investment banking firms and commerical banks. During Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency, he opposed much of the New Deal and clashed with the President over his federal appointments in Virginia. He died in office in 1946 at the age of 88.